As Top Historians Ring Alarm Bells About NYT’s 1619 Project, Defiant Public Schools Refuse To Answer Questions

“On August 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I had vigorously argued against,” reads the first sentence of Friday’s essay by Leslie Harris, a history professor at Northwestern University.

Harris is just the latest in a string of academics to levy criticism on Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project. She is the first, however, who actually took part in the project as a fact-checker. During the publication process for 1619, Harris “vigorously disputed” the idea that the American Revolution was actually about preserving slavery. Nonetheless, there it was in print come August 2019.

While Harris cautions that some conservatives are too quick to call the whole project a wash, she is among a handful of American History academics ringing alarm bells that the project should issue corrections. These calls also come as several public school systems signal their intent to add 1619 to their curriculums.

Written by journalists and opinion writers, the project attempts “to reframe the country’s history” by suggesting America’s “true founding” was when the first slaves arrived in 1619.

Within days of its launch, multiple top historians pointed out glaring factual inaccuracies. Their concerns, however, went largely ignored, save for one response from NYT editor Josh Silverstein essentially dismissing a letter sent by five such historians.

How about a 619 project? That is when the Quran was being written. Slavery is not only tolerated in that foul book, it is part of the rewards for service to Mad Moe. Slavery exists today in Islamic countries and Islam has played a huge part of that evil trade from its very beginning.

Because I live in Spain every few months I get some Euroweenie trying to lecture me on America’s ills. Slavery, mistreatment of Native Americans, etc. All I do is point out that at the times in question virtually every American had either come from Europe or was a child of people who came from Europe. So where did they learn to be so cruel? That usually ends the conversation.

What they need to teach is that it was the Republicans that freed the slaves. It was the Republicans that gave blacks the right to carry firearms as they traveled North to look for jobs. It was the Republicans that secured citizenship for the blacks. It was the Republicans that secured the right to vote for the blacks (and women too). It was the Republicans that ended segregation. It was Republicans that secure their civil rights. It was the Republicans that took down the KKK. It was Evagelicals in the party that led the charge. Which religion do the dems hate the most? After all this, Republicans have been disappointed in how blacks have voted for the last 50 years or so. It looks like they are finally starting to leave the democrat plantation.

“I’m concerned, but I hope that our critiques might have alerted teachers who use the material to provide balance in their own critical use of it and to point out errors of fact as well as possible biases in interpretation,” McPherson said.

That'll get them shunned and fired.

At least on first impression, this is an attempt at revisionism and presentism, at the expense of other notable events such as columbus in 1492, roanoke, jamestown, the declaration of independence and the constitution. The message that is conveyed to impressionable schoolchildren seems to be that those other events are less important and in fact not applicable to black African american people.

So this is not so much a celebration of diversity as much as it is a celebration of ongoing divisiveness, and partail justification of ongoing hatred and violence by some black african americans towards non black non african americans.

Imho.

Spaniards give you grief? Kettle - Black.

I tell my Lefty friends it took America some eighty years and hundreds of thousands of lives to rid itself of the British institution of slavery.

Spaniards don’t give me any grief at all. It’s expats living in Spain, either from other European countries or Americans who got educated in America, made enough money to emigrate then moved out so now they can trash the evil place they left. In other words, ingrates. I do give them partial credit. Unlike a lot of loudmouthed celebrities they made good on their promises to leave.

1619 search hits:

Northwestern University Historian: I Warned The 1619 Project's Author She Was Wrong About The Revolutionary War [03/06/2020 10:31:35 AM PST]
NYT's 1619 Project is dishonest attack on nation's founding principles [03/02/2020 9:46:53 AM PST]
Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020 [03/01/2020 6:22:40 AM PST]
Racist America? Countering the 1619 Project's False Narrative [02/29/2020 10:39:15 AM PST]
1619 vs. 1776: A battle for truth [02/26/2020 7:25:22 AM PST]
6 myths about the history of Black people in America(1619 alert!) [02/20/2020 1:50:48 PM PST]
Public Schools Are Teaching The 1619 Project in Class, Despite Concerns From Historians [01/28/2020 8:20:40 AM PST]
Princeton Historian: The NY Times' 1619 Project Is 'Built On Partial Truths And Misstatements Of The Facts' [01/22/2020 10:42:08 AM PST]
Why New World Slavery Was Sadly, Inevitable: What The New York Times' 1619 Project gets wrong. [01/17/2020 7:56:00 AM PST]
1776 Honors America's Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not: [01/09/2020 8:07:44 AM PST]
Oxford Historian On The 1619 Project: 'A Preposterous And One-Dimensional Reading' Of American History [01/02/2020 12:12:09 PM PST]
Oxford Historian On The NY Times' 1619 Project: 'A Preposterous And One-Dimensional Reading' Of American History [01/02/2020 10:11:13 AM PST]
Historians Critique The 1619 Project, and We Respond [12/21/2019 4:15:10 PM PST]
The '1619 Project' Gets Schooled [12/18/2019 8:52:36 PM PST]
A Divisive, Historically Dubious Curriculum (1619 Project of the New York Times) [12/03/2019 2:28:40 PM PST]
Prominent Historians Criticize The NY Times' 1619 Project As 'Biased,' 'Anti-Historical' [12/01/2019 10:24:47 AM PST]
An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times' 1619 Project [11/30/2019 5:20:16 PM PST]
The Lies of the New York Times' 1619 Project [08/31/2019 10:56:46 AM PDT]
The New York Times uses the British Empire's propaganda in order to smear the US (1619 Project) [08/25/2019 2:20:04 PM PDT]
What The 1619 Project Leaves Out [08/25/2019 11:49:45 AM PDT]
The New York Times 1959 Project -- Similar to Their 1619 Project [08/24/2019 5:14:17 AM PDT]
The 1619 Project Says We Fought American Revolution In Order To Keep Slavery Intact [08/24/2019 4:22:57 AM PDT]
Slavery In America Did Not Begin In 1619, And Other Things The New York Times Gets Wrong [08/23/2019 9:27:06 AM PDT]
Rejecting Every Premise Of The New York Times 1619 Project [08/22/2019 8:29:13 AM PDT]
We Must Say No to the 1619 Project in Schools [08/22/2019 7:57:15 AM PDT]
The NY Times Jumps the Shark with 1619 [08/21/2019 12:50:22 PM PDT]
VIDEO: New York Times Editor ADMITS 1619 Project Is About Slamming Trump [08/20/2019 9:37:46 AM PDT]

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